Originally Posted by
e6bpilot
I used to joke about every month people saying the lines are the worst they have ever seen and how that is quite impossible, but now I am pretty sure they actually are. When we used to look at the lines in the bid sort program, it brought us joy and soothing feelings as they had symmetry and harmony. Now it looks like a 3 year old took a bunch of legos and threw them on a calendar.
There simply are very few of the old SWA bread and butter line, which was four 3 day trips starting and ending the same day of the week. Now it is a jumbled mass of oddly placed trips with a couple of turns thrown in there for S and G. I am sure that this has many reasons. They changed the schedule to vary based on the day of the week, redeyes, network changes, SWAPA failing to account for the downside of APL changes, etc. It is just the new reality.
Devils advocate would say step one into ever talking the pilots into PBS would be to make the lines as nonstandard and painful as possible.
Sorta like healthcare in US. Step one to making the gov in charge of everything is require existing system to cover everything and make it as expensive as possible so that people start clamoring for gov run healthcare system.